Entries for December, 2007

Going global, making money in the local markets.

Over the years I have seen a flurry of new domain name extensions hit the market, some successful, some not. What makes a successful domain name extension is still up for debate, for most nothing appears to compete with dotCOM or it’s little brother dotNET. There is no doubt, dotCOM is going to be tops [...]

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The consumer-side of the business

In past post I emphasized the benefits of targeting the business/smb market but I don’t want you to think that it is the only really solid opportunity. There are a lot of exciting things going on for consumers as well.
Web 2.0 is all about user generated content. Millions of individuals around the world are creating [...]

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A little history on domain names

So we all know that the internet as we know it never really took off until the late 90’s. But here is a little factoid you may not have known. Some of the oldest domain names go back to the 80’s.
Here are the top 10 oldest names:
SYMBOLICS.COM (March 15 1985)
BBN.COM (April 24 1985)
THINK.COM (May 24 [...]

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